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Wrangell physician Greg Salard emerged as the victor this week after winning a portion of a motion he filed against Wrangell Medical Center in First District Court, along with Alaska Island Community Services, seeking to have his hospital privileges reinstated. A ruling by Judge Kevin Miller on Monday, Dec. 12, temporarily reinstated Salard, with restrictions, and directed that all parties move forward with a hearing to evaluate his permanent access to hospital privileges under Title IX of the W...
A petition by nurses at Wrangell Medical Center to have the Alaska Nurses Association act as a collective bargaining unit for non-supervisory nurses has failed after a review by the Alaska Labor Relations Agency. In the conclusion of the ALRA decision and order, factors such as the size of the community, wages, hours and other working conditions led to a recommendation of a united bargaining unit. “A single, wall-to-wall unit of non-supervisory employees at (WMC) is the unit appropriate for c...
KSTK station manager Peter Helgeson works the controls as the Wrangell Headstart class sang Christmas carols live on the air on Thursday, Dec 8....
Jerry Powers, 73, passed away on December 2, 2011 in Kamiah, Idaho. Jerry grew up in Wrangell and fished with his dad for many years. He moved to Tacoma 45 years ago, but still returned to Wrangell to go commercial fishing, the last years with Ted Buttle. He was preceded in death by his wife Charlene, his parents Warren and Isabelle Powers. He is survived by his children, Leann, Michelle and Donald, (their mother is former Bonnie Sylvester), his sister Donna, brothers, Warren and Darrell...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly met for a public hearing and open session on Tuesday, Dec. 13 to discuss a number of issues related to voting, property issues, budgetary appropriations and contracts, and to consider recommendations on what type of roof will grace the new Wrangell Medical Center. Before the open session portion of the meeting the assembly took up a public hearing and second reading on a proposed ordinance amending the borough code to allow absentee voting by fax. Later, in open...
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The Wrangell Medical Center renovation project team made a triumphant return to Wrangell this week as the new hospital came inches closer to becoming a reality in the borough. The team is composed of architect Julia Covington of David E. Johnson Architects in Nashville, Tenn., and staff from American Health Facilities Development, Layton Construction and Sanderling Healthcare. The modular buildings to be used in the new hospital are to be provided by Sanderling, a Nashville-based firm that...
The Wolves boys and girls basketball teams demolished their competition in Petersburg over the weekend as Wrangell took wins in four games out of the seven played against the Vikings – and saw the Lady Wolves varsity and JV teams go undefeated (2-0, 1-0) on the road. The games, which were homecoming matches for Petersburg, saw a split for the boys’ JV team with a 43-37 win and a 44-35 loss over the weekend. On the Lady Wolves’ side, the varsity team took both Friday and Saturday nights with...
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium has a new leader at the helm in Juneau. Charles Clement, who is currently serving as vice president and chief operation officer for the Southcentral Foundation, an Anchorage-based health care organization, has been selected as the organization’s next president and CEO. Clement will replace Roald Helgesen beginning in February 2012. Helgesen is set to take over as CEO of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. According to a press release, C...
Robert Randall (Randy) Sansom, 57, died on December 10, 2011, in Wrangell, after a long struggle with heart disease. He was born October 12, 1954, or as he liked to say “Columbus Day, 1954”, in Kerrville, Texas to Bob and Georgie Sansom. Randy was a happy child and an outgoing adult. He never met a stranger. He attended Tivy Schools in Kerrville, Texas. In spite of a learning disability, Randy learned to do yard work and wash dishes while attending the Green House facility for handicapped...
To the Editor: We the people, for the people and by the people? Really: Aren’t “We” the people of this great land? Then tell us who appoints the administrators in the offices of AMHS? They are certainly not men of knowledge regarding the AMHS ships. They seem more like “Let’s try these ships” or you “pat my back and I’ll pat yours” and “if these don’t work, we’ll tie these up and just order some more. Who is this man that knows that these Alaska Class ferries are definitely going to work where others have failed? And who is he that he can say w...
Claire Annabelle Rooney was born November 4, 2011 at Bartlett Regional Hospital to Jessica and Jason Rooney. Claire weighed 6 lbs 14 oz. and was 21 inches long at birth. Claire joins three older brothers Alex (8), Nate (6), and Sawyer (3). Maternal grandparents are Ron and Judi Blake of Meredith, NH. Paternal grandparents are Rob and Sharry Rooney of Wrangell....
Florence Imogene Petticrew passed away on September 8, 2011. Imogene was born in Arcata, CA on February 27, 1916, to parents Charles A. and Lyra C. Dahle West. Imogene had one sibling; a brother, Alfred C. “Tim” West who joined the family two years later and the two became the best of friends. Imogene moved to Petersburg Ak in 1919 at the age of 3, where her father was employed as a wharfinger for Alaska Steam Ship Lines. Imogene attended school in Petersburg and subsequently met and mar...
